Jessica Westhead

• Oct-2023
• / General Fiction
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Featured on 49th Shelf's Most Anticipated: 2023 Fall Fiction PreviewFeatured on CBC's 2023 Fall Fiction Preview"Things used to be easier, but even in those carefree days, the rules were in place for a reason. And that reason is: so we can all agree. ...

• Jan-2020
• / Thriller
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A riveting novel about a mother’s all-consuming worry for her child over forty-eight hours at a remote cottage with old friends and a mysterious neighbour, for fans of Little Fires Everywhere and Truly Madly Guilty Ruth is the fiercely protectiv...

• Sep-2017
• / Literary
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Jessica Westhead's follow-up to And Also Sharks, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of 2011 and Finalist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award.

Things Not to Do is a collection of stories that seeks to examine -- t...

• Feb-2014
• / General Fiction
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The Lesson presents a self-absorbed wedding DJ as the newest addition to Jessica Westhead's trademark cast of offbeat protagonists. This posturing narrator is showing a new recruit the ropes, but what begins as a monologu...

• Mar-2011
• / General Fiction
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Finalist for the 2012 Danuta Gleed Literary Award A 2011 Globe and Mail Top 100 book One of Kobo's Best Ebooks of 2011 The forlornly funny stories in And Also Sharks celebrate the socially awkward, the insecure, the unfulfilled, and the obsessed. A d...

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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Brian Lembeck Pulpy' takes life slow and steady. He likes his office job, and he likes his gentle, figurine-collecting boss, Al. He even likes the bitter receptionist, though he's the only one who does. He likes his wife, Midge, too, and their ice-...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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Pulpy takes life slow and steady. He likes his office job, and he likes his gentle, figurine-collecting boss, Al. He likes his wife, Midge, too, and their ice-dancing lessons. But when Al retires and the tyrannical Dan takes over, the promotion Pulpy...